ASUS AP201 or Lian Li A3 + get your own fans (i.e. Arctic F12 or Noctua S12B) .

This post has been edited by kingkingyyk: Sep 18 2024, 09:44 AM

Not a fans of bundled fans. You could turn the speed down until tolerable level but the airflow will not be as good (one of your requirement). Just hope Air 100 can serve what you asked for.

If it is not system drive then you could go for cheapo drives like Kingston NV2 as the operations will be largely on read. Otherwise start with at least WD SN580.

This post has been edited by kingkingyyk: Sep 19 2024, 10:29 AM

This is not the A4. The massive amount of ventilation holes & fan brackets are there for a reason. I won't be solely blaming the case is bad when you run into temperature issue.

Hot VRM... I don't feel A3 will have it. Check the review posted earlier, you could install a fan on side panel and blast it toward the VRM (or the fan on air cooler will just bring some air to it.)
Hot SSD could be due to GPU exhausting a lot of heat, especially to the one below PCI-E slot. This is not exclusive to A3.

This post has been edited by kingkingyyk: Sep 20 2024, 10:20 AM

HyperX division is long sold to HP. The series is now known as Fury.

Just try to get back the same brand & model as possible.

Fury Beast cheapest model's price is indeed as low as value RAM. Looks like the heat spreader costs nothing to them to make. The mobo will get the both RAM to run at 2133MHz, so no worries.

If you always use something such as AVX, Handbrake that 9700X performs obviously faster than 7700, why not?
7900 is within reach if you crave for multithreaded performance but 9700X is faster in those software built with single-threaded language, i.e. the sluggish Electron web app (Chromium in disguise), Python.

I oppose this. I have APU running 24/7 as server and it has been working amazing well.

To clarify thing further :
- The pro series you mentioned is Threadripper.
- The actual pro series is Ryzen Pro / Threadripper Pro. They are for enterprise market, come with extra security (i.e. the infamous PSB fuse) / management interfaces.

This post has been edited by kingkingyyk: Oct 26 2024, 07:06 PM

My unit is perfectly fine. Threadripper is for user desk, not Epyc. It can start small with 32 cores as execution testing or small data and further transfer the full workload to Epyc if performance is needed.

Threadripper Pro is just Threadripper with enterprise management features. It is still for workstation on user desk, but in corporate who wants to have those features. One such case use would be engineer that needs intensive computing power within reach. Too bad there is no other offering from Intel alternative now for this market.

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/design-visuali...tations/latest/

The reason with this is Intel can roll out new microcode via Windows Update whenever needed. For novice users going to AMD, the bios will be mature in 3 months or so after new platform launch, and that is the good time to use that as baseline. (and enjoy price drop)

This post has been edited by kingkingyyk: Oct 27 2024, 01:17 PM

"Cheap" & Small:
Ryzen 7 9700X RM1548
Noctua NH-U9S RM373 (Or just go for value for bucks Thermalright PA120 SE for 139 and change to Noctua fans when it breaks)
MSI B650M Gaming Plus WiFi RM759
Kingston Fury Beast DDR5-5600 64GB Kit RM939
MSI RTX4070 12GB Ventus 2X E OC RM2799
Kingston KC3000 1TB SSD RM359
Silverstone DA 750W PSU RM449
Lian Li 205M (RGB fans, but you can disconnect the RGB cable if you don't want) RM189

Total: RM7415

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Ryzen 7 9900X RM1999
Noctua NH-U12S RM489
MSI B650 Tomahawk WiFi RM1315
Kingston Fury Beast DDR5-5600 64GB Kit RM939
MSI RTX4070 12GB Ventus 2X E OC RM2799
Kingston KC3000 1TB SSD RM359
Silverstone DA 850W PSU RM519
Lian Li 207 (RGB fans, but you can disconnect the RGB cable if you don't want) RM339

Total: RM8758

Zen 5 is plain fast in single threaded workload (I'm looking at you, damn Python GIL!)
https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-ryzen-9950x-9900x/9
https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/...w/#Introduction

There isn't much point to choose Intel 14th over AMD since the package price is quite identical due to more expensive cooler needed to tame the hot Intel down. The platform is dead end too.


It depends. Intel IGP is proven good in supporting latest codec (so scrubbing through timeline will be quick!), but some plugins just outright only supports CPU computation. NVIDIA GPU isn't that far off unless TS has specific codec that can only be supported by Intel IGP but not NVIDIA. For rendering wise, GPU still has a long way to beat CPU in terms of quality per bitrate.

So in this case, we can have a look at this : https://www.techpowerup.com/review/amd-ryzen-9-9900x/11.html

This post has been edited by kingkingyyk: Nov 2 2024, 09:59 AM

The underlying chipset is still Promontory 21 anyway, but X870 M.2 is PITA due to the forced USB4 implementation.
CUDIMM is to solve high speed memory issue, but can be solved technically with X3D.

I'm not a fans of the poor Thermalright fan, that's why there is an extra option mentioned. Arctic fan is ok for the price (Mine had fan blade just flew off), but TS mentioned about longevity and Noctua specifically, so why not? For casing it is quite subjective.

This post has been edited by kingkingyyk: Nov 2 2024, 11:41 AM

If you compare it with Arctic, why not.

The same goes to I bought a 8000MT CUDIMM RAM, but my processor/board couldn't drive it. With 64GB RAM, is it really necessary for TS to change to CUDIMM in years to come? It could cost more but the performance gain could be better obtained by pouring the fund into some other parts.

As for X870, the problem is more like you spend extra but you get a x2 speed on CPU-linked M.2. For sure you can disable the USB4 functionality in BIOS to get that back, but now the board becomes B650 in functionality. If OP has specific reason and needs USB4 then it would be okay to have X870 instead.

This post has been edited by kingkingyyk: Nov 2 2024, 12:45 PM

We shall see that in Zen 6 since there will be I/O die change.

Ryzen 5 5600G RM489
MSI A520M-A PRO RM299
Kingston Value 16GB DDR4-3200 RAM x2 RM290
Kingston KC3000 500GB SSD RM239
Silverstone FARA 313B RM169
FSP Hyper Pro 550W PSU RM159
Viewsonic VA2432-H 24" RM309
Logitech MK120 KB+Mouse Combo RM47

Total: RM2001

Or

ASRock DeskMini X300 RM709
Ryzen 5 5600G RM489
Kingston Value 16GB DDR4-3200 RAM RM145
Kingston KC3000 500GB SSD RM239
Viewsonic VA2432-H 24" RM309
Logitech MK220 Wireless KB+Mouse Combo RM79

Total: RM1970

This post has been edited by kingkingyyk: Nov 15 2024, 08:58 PM

Doesn't matter for office purpose.

Ryzen 5 7500F RM659
MSI B650M Gaming WiFi RM599 (+180 for Plus version if plan to upgrade to 120W CPU later)
Kingston Fury Beast DDR5-5600 32GB Kit RM409 (16GB is no longer enough for AAA games)
ASRock B580 12GB GDDR6 Challenger RM1399 (Estimated price, and hell no to 8GB VRAM)
WD Blue SN580 1TB RM319
LianLi 205M RM199
FSP HV Pro 650W PSU RM249

Total: RM3833

P/S : DDR5 boards are obscenely expensive.

This post has been edited by kingkingyyk: Dec 18 2024, 06:20 PM

AM4 / LGA1700 / LGA1851 are dead end.
AM5 will can fare you Zen 6 down the road.

Ryzen 5 7600 RM709
MSI B650M Gaming Plus WiFi RM759
Kingston Fury Beast DDR5-5600 32GB Kit RM409
ASUS RTX4060 Ti 16GB Dual OC RM2199
Kingston KC3000 1TB RM349
ASUS A21 Mesh RM199
Silverstone VIVA Gold 650W PSU RM329

Total: RM4953

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Ryzen 5 7600 RM709
MSI B650M Gaming WiFi RM599
Kingston Fury Beast DDR5-5600 32GB Kit RM409
Zotac RTX4070 Super 12GB Twin Edge RM2699
Kingston KC3000 1TB RM349
ASUS A21 Mesh RM199
FSP HV Pro 650W PSU RM329

Total: RM5293

This post has been edited by kingkingyyk: Dec 19 2024, 09:24 AM

199 and what else you could request?

Kingston EXPO has been working fine for me. Stick to official 5600, not trying luck by going 6000/6400 can save some troubles.

This post has been edited by kingkingyyk: Dec 20 2024, 10:40 AM